If New Year’s resolutions* are making you grrrowl then have a BEAR hug. BEAR’s delicious natural nibbles are under 100 calories and contain 1 portion of fruit or wholegrains so you can shed the hibernation pounds happily.
*over 88% of people cave in on their resolutions before the end of January. Grrr.
Join the bear family in January and you could win a month of free nibbles (5 prizes to win) click here to join
If you can’t wait to try BEAR get your paws on our nibbles from our shop.
Here at BEAR we’re growling behind team Grrreat Britain all the way to the 2012 olympics. So to make sure we hurdle faster than a herd of fully-grown reindeers we sent Richard Yates (Team GB 400m hurdleer) some BEAR nibbles. If you want some training tips from the professionals take notes:
Richard: I am in heavy winter training still consisting of long aerobic sessions plus heavy weights work in the gym and some lactic hurdles sessions. I have a couple of races indoors next month in France over 400 hurdles which I am using as hurdles practice and also to earn some prize money. In terms of nutrition for a race I will make sure I am not too heavy by limiting the amount of protein I eat the day before. I will generally consume a wholegrain pasta meal the night before the race sometimes with a small amount of chicken. I will have a light carbohydrate breakfast of wheat cereals and maybe a snack such as a packet of BEAR fruit nibbles or wholegrain granola after this depending on what time the race is. If the race is in the evening I will have a light pasta or rice meal at lunchtime. I also ensure I am hydrated by drinking sufficient water and balancing this with electrolytes. Post race I make sure I replace all the calories I have used by eating asap and often allow myself an unhealthy day so I don’t crave the bad stuff throughout my next training week!
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You might recall a few weeks back we told you about a man named Giles (not our Giles), who to pledge his love for all things BEAR headed off to Alaska to walk with grizzlies. Romeo & Juliet eat your heart out.
Giles is a photographer so said he’d get us a photo with a real BEAR whilst wearing one of our own BEAR t-shirts. Despite being thrilled about this we sent Giles off with some sombre warnings to keep his head about him at all times and if in doubt do the hedgehog.
We’re happy to say Giles returned with all four limbs intact and bearing some amazing photos of our long lost relatives.
If you feel inspired to pledge your love for BEAR we’re also quite content with a BEAR hug. No need to lose a leg for your favourite bag of nibbles.
Want to see more incredible BEAR photos from Giles trip visit his Flickr Page
It’s gone faster than a stampede of squirrels, but BEAR is nearly one year old and we’d like you to join us in the woods to celebrate. We’re heading down to Alice Holt Forest in Surrey for the day for some adventures in and around the trees. Adults and kids alike are invited, there’ll be cake, nibbles and of course BEAR himself.
Please RSVP below so we know how many goody bags to make and cakes to bake. When you RSVP you can also chose to enter the competition to win one of 10 pairs of tickets to join the BEAR team at Go Ape in the morning & Bushcraft skills in the afternoon. (10 years + for Go Ape and Bushcraft)
When: Saturday 23rd October (it’s during half term)
Where: Alice Holt Forest, GU10 4LS – directions
Who: Everyone (bring the dog)
Here’s the plan:
11am-12noon: Tree Time
You’ve got over 2000 acres
of forest to play with, but
BEAR will be over at the
Timberline Trail, the 3D maze
and the Habitat Trail too.
Competition winners need to
be in the forest early for
Go Ape starting at 9am.
Bright eyed and bushy tailed.
12 noon: Lunch
After a morning in the forest
you’ll have built up a fierce
appetite for lunch. You bring
the sandwiches (they sell some
at the cafe there too) and we’ll
take care of all the nibbles and cake.
1-3pm: BEAR fact hunt
Cake needs strolling off. So head out
with the BEAR fact hunt map into the
trees and find all the animal families
from our Yo Yo cards hiding at each stop.
(All ages – 2km trail)
There’ll be lots of BEAR helpers around on the day to make sure you don’t get lost in the woods. Grrr
If you want to find out anything else about the day, just give the team a growl on 0845 519 3266 or email us grrr@bearnibbles.co.uk. Once you RSVP, we’ll send you a reminder and details a week before BEAR’s birthday.
Not our Giles though, but a photographer called Giles Breton who is off to Kodiak Island, Alaska to spend some time with 2000 kodiak bears. These BEARS need to chow down on enough salmon to put on 3-6 pounds of weight…. per day, until November. This way, they’ll be fat enough to sleep easy in their caves in the mountains during the icy winter that’s not far off now. And Giles is going to photograph it all wearing one of our t-shirts. Here’s a little about how he’s preparing for the trip:
“We hope to capture the best bear images ever taken during the annual salmon run. I dont know exactly where on Kodiak we will be but it will be totally remote. I’m doing quite a bit of fitness work not because its a hard trek every day but to ensure i can run faster than at least 2 of the other bear watchers on this trip. [A] bear will always chase you down and we dont want that to be me (nor anyone else if im honest). My diet is important and part of that is, of course, to have BEAR granola in the mornings.”
We can’t wait to see the photos; just watch this first Giles.
The judges of The Guild of Fine Food have spent the last 2 months blind-tasting* over 6000 entries for the Great Taste Gold Awards. Lucky them. And they decided that our Mango and Pineapple fruit nibbles should get 2 gold stars (of 3), and our Tropical Crunch granola nibbles were worthy of one.
Two stars apparently means that all the judges have to unanimously agree that the product has achieved absolute perfection. Ooooh, check us out. So we’ve spent the whole week patting each other on the backs and dishing out the BEAR hugs.
*here’s a picture that shows the blind tasting – empty contents of BEAR onto plate, before judges enter room. That way there’s no prejudice if a judge was mauled by a BEAR when they were a kid.
We like to learn something new every day, and to make things easy, we just go to learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk. Recently we came across this fact:
Just so you know, our BEAR costume is NOT made of real bears.
Sadly, these are. Grrr.
The Government is withdrawing all funding from its own healthy eating schemes such as change4life and has announced power is to be given to the food giants such as Mars, Cadbury’s and Coca-Cola in the fight against obesity…
BEAR snarls at this decision and we’re off to the Government to grrrowl our case
Get behind BEAR in campaigning to stop these companies from taking control of the UK obesity battle and help companies such as BEAR, who already care and work hard to provide truly healthy and delicious food to the UK get an equal opportunity in helping get our nation healthier.
BACK BEAR BY SIGNING OUR PETITION
We the undersigned ask you to sign our petition.
Tiago Marques,
Bernadette Willey,
Yes these companies have lots of money, but this is advertising for them. This sends out very confusing messages to children. We have a real issue with childhood and adult obsesity and can't ignore the role that junk food plays.
Name Withheld,
Yet another way the government is failing today's children.
paul webster,
Elysia,
Niamh,
C Forster,
Does the government actually want the nation to be healthy? I work in childhood obesity and it makes me really sad to think that the government are not supporting all the health professionals and companies/agencies doing their bit to reduce obesity!
cheryl bonham,
being a former morbidly obese person I totally support your cause to get the government to make healthy food more accessible. x
Name Withheld,
Name Withheld,
Keep Growling - well done!!
If Americans feel deceived in any way, they’ll sue your sorry behind. Now coffee has ‘This is HOT!’ warnings on it, Milk has ‘Allergy warning: contains milk’. We just came across this ad from the 80s for some fruit roll ups. They look a bit odd and not exactly very fruity. A lady across the pond is now suing the company behind it.
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